Brugma, Laurens (2021) Exploring socio-demographic factors and the effect on well-being. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
This paper is a case study of Assen, a provincial capital city in the Netherlands. This paper aims to answer the main question: ‘To what extent do socio-demographical factors affect the factors of subjective well-being and wider social well-being, in the city of Assen?’. To discover these socio-demographic factors a social atlas of geographies of Assen is created. The paper further analyses to what extent income inequality affects factors of subjective well-being. The analysis is carried out by a regression model using CBS and KWIZ data. The dataset of CBS provides information about percentages of income groups on a neighbourhood level. The KWIZ-data provides information about the factors of subjective well-being per neighbourhood. To conclude the extent to which the socio-demographical factors of low-education and unemployment are affected by socio-demographic factors are explored. The atlas of geographies provides an insight in the socio-demographic factors of the neighbourhoods of Assen, through the cartogram’s multiple patterns between socio-demographic factors can be observed. It is concluded that; socio-demographic factors affect subjective well-being, income inequality has an effect on perceived safety and therefore affects SWB, and that socio-demographic factors furthermore affect the factors of education and unemployment that according to literature have an effect on subjective well-being.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Ballas, D. |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2021 06:50 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2021 06:50 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3511 |
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